Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre is a gift shop and exhibition space in the North Building above Canberra Museum and Gallery and directly across from the Legislative Assembly. It only has the one exhibition space but it is often occupied with works by some of Australia’s best contemporary designers and artists. Works are available for purchase and the gift shop is perfect if you want to buy something beautiful and unique, one off designer pieces that I have found always hit the mark and make excellent birthday/anniversary presents, they’ve not failed me yet! Craft ACT is a not-for-profit organisation that supports artists, ‘crafters’, designers and makers at every stage of their careers and so the exhibition space could be showing works by students or novices or it could have works by well established, highly accomplished, professionals. Call ahead and find out what’s showing or, if visiting CMAG below, pop upstairs and take pot luck. I’m yet to be disappointed.